Josh Roth, PhD, an assistant professor in the UW Departments of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation and Mechanical Engineering, has received a five-year $630,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to advance research on knee joint instability and its role in osteoarthritis. While joint instability often limits mobility and accelerates the progression of osteoarthritis, the root cause […]
It took something as small as the width of a motorcycle tire to change Jack Brucks’ life forever. Brucks, then 10 years old, was riding a single-piston motorcycle in a flat-track training session — his specialty — in Texas when his front wheel struck a tire that was on the track as a marker, sending […]
Wan-Ju Li, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, and fellow researchers Wei Xu, PhD, a professor in the Department of Oncology, and Nathan Welham, PhD, CCC-SLP, a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology, received a $50,000 Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center Focus Group Award, supported by a WARF gift, […]
Your “dream job”? Many people hold that in mind and then try to find one as close as possible to it. David Bernhardt, MD, professor in the UW Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation with a joint appointment in the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, is one of those extraordinarily rare few who found his […]
UW Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation faculty were recognized with prestigious honors at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) in Seattle. Department Chair Dr. Tamara Scerpella received the Orthopedic Surgeon Excellence Award, becoming only the second recipient of this national honor. The award recognizes a surgeon who exemplifies […]
